America’s fastest-growing state: North Frackota
By Philip Bump, grist.orgAccording to the weirdly huge text on the Census Bureau’s website, the fastest-growing state in the country in 2011 was North Dakota, which grew at a rate of 2.17 percent. The second fastest-growing state was the District of Columbia, wh…
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The Government Open-Data Program At The Root Of Energy-Efficiency Startups
BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.comThe Green Button program has forced utilities to standardize the way they present their energy use numbers to their customers. In turn, that data has caused an explosion of apps and services to help you save energy—and money.
It’s only a…
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EVRYTHNG: Friending your stuff
By Madhumita Venkataramanan, wired.co.ukMagazine
This article was taken from the January 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired’s articles in print before they’re posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing…
2013 Prediction: Science Funding Remains Strong
By Juliet Eilperin, popsci.comBarack Obama’s second term should see the same focus on funding science and technology—although the budget ax is looming.
Science and technology have utterly transformed human life in the past few generations, and forecasts of the…
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You, Under the Retail Microscope
By Ben Steverman -, bloomberg.comFrederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images
It’s the classic holiday face-off. On one side, you have the wary shopper, who is often “just browsing” and more and more likely to purchase only online. On the other, there’s the salesperson, wh…
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How Obama Knew How You’d Vote, Even Before You Did
Dan Rowinski, readwrite.comImaging you were a political analyst who time traveled from 1990s to November 5, 2012. A quick look at the national polls for the presidential election, you would probably have thought that Republican nominee Mitt Romney had a pretty good shot at…
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25,000 People (And Counting) Flood White House With Online Petition To ‘Immediately Address’ Gun Control
Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.comUpdate: The petition has reached 25,000 signatures
Almost immediately following the tragic school shooting in Connecticut, over 16,000 people have signed an official White House WeThePeople petition to “Immediately…
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My Traveling Tiny House
Site by Sophic, tinyhouselistings.comPosted by Steven on November 26, 2012 // 34 Comments
By Christy Dean
Four months ago I moved out of my 2 bedroom home and into this tiny (mobile) house. I’m traveling the country in my little nest and I love it! It gets a lot of…
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Jon Stewart: Have Republicans Hit ‘Rock Bottom’ With Failed United Nations Disability Treaty?
Carol Hartsell, huffingtonpost.comFor the second day in a row, Jon Stewart hammered at Republicans over irrational partisanship. On Tuesday, he took down Boehner and company’s indecent fiscal cliff proposal, and on Wednesday “The Daily Show” host took senate…
‘Hobbit’ Motion Sickness, Nausea Critics Shot Down By Warner Bros. And Peter Jackson
Cavan Sieczkowski, huffingtonpost.comWarner Bros. and Peter Jackson are responding to claims that “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” is causing motion sickness and nausea among viewers.
Peter Jackson’s fantasy flick premiered in New Zealand on Nov. 28 and claims of…
What Obama’s Victory Means for Tech
Brian Barrett, gizmodo.comBarack Obama’s victory last night has far-reaching fiscal, social, and military implications, all of which are familiar to anyone who kept at least one eye open during any of this year’s debates. But what do four more years mean for tech…
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Built to win: Deep inside Obama’s campaign tech
Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.comThe reelection of Barack Obama was won by people, not by software. But in a contest as close as last week’s election, software may have given the Obama for America organization’s people a tiny edge—making them by some measures more…
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Government’s digital services portal Gov.uk comes out of beta
By Ian Steadman, wired.co.ukTechnology
The government’s centralised portal for all its online services, Gov.uk, finally launched today after two years of development.
It represents the flagship of the government’s “digital by default” policy, an idea fir…
Infographic: Womens’ health connections
By Madhumita Venkataramanan, wired.co.ukMagazine
This article was taken from the October 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired’s articles in print before they’re posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing…
A Disappointing Presidential Debate For Energy And Climate
By Climate Guest Blogger on Oct 5, 2012 at 10:30 am, thinkprogress.orgby Bill Becker
If Mitt Romney and Barack Obama had been able to look through the television cameras at who was watching their first debate, it undoubtedly would have been more interesting than the debate itself.
Rush Limbaugh…
Report says 15 percent of Mitt Romney Twitter followers are paid fakes
Dan Goodin, arstechnica.com
More than 15 percent of Mitt Romney’s Twitter followers may be generated by paid services that use fake accounts to artificially inflate the number of people subscribed to the presumptive Republican nominee for US President,…
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Interesting summary of the media tactics of the current McCain campaign.
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